NA World of Warcraft Guild Transfers to Alliance, Picks Up Goodies, & Transfers Back to Horde

Top tier raiding is a big deal in World of Warcraft as guilds around the world race for the “world first” achievements clearing the latest raid tier on mythic difficulty. Guilds look for every advantage possible. In a weird twist, this week’s opening of Battle of Dazar’alor offered Alliance players a fairly significant advantage over Horde players. Allies were able to collect additional high level gear that Horde players do not have access to ahead of the mythic version opening next week. Both Horde and Alliance players have been able to pick up 400 iLevel gear through time-walking. Alliance players have been able to add additional 400 iLevel gear through completion of the warfront quest and a PvP quest to kill Horde players while in warmode. They’ve also gotten an emissary quest that rewards a 385 iLevel weapon. Limit is a North American Horde guild that has routinely been in the chase for world first achievements for years. Earlier this week, the guild’s raid team transferred en masse to Alliance using gold obtained carrying other players through Uldir and mythic plus dungeons. After obtaining the maximum number of available items, the team has transferred back to Horde ahead of Tuesday’s raid opening. Limit had been criticized for transferring to Alliance, but said the intention was never to remain Alliance since players would lose titles and achievements in the move. Some Horde guilds have criticized Limit and have been progressing through Heroic Dazar’alor without the gear advantage that Limit now has. Several… [Read full story]